Reports of Spread of Bird Flu within Families
There have been a number of anecdotal reports of the spread of the H5NU Bird Flu virus via human to human transmission that are concerning medical, public health and veterinary medical authorities.
To date these reports are anecdotal but are receiving further investigation through medical, biomedical and genetic testing and research. If the H5NU Bird Flu virus can indeed be spread through person to person contact this raises major concerns. To speak it is a whole new ballgame. The influenza virus has the virulent ability of changing its exterior protein coat on a regular – if not annual occurrence. The “flu” that you had last year is different from this year’s flu. A person is not protected from the newer flu – whether or not they had it previously or were immunized with a flu shot. It is of concern that if the virus mutates into a new more lethal version then the risks of much wider spread and even world wide pandemics arises. The models of the pandemic waiting to happen, or to reoccur one year, are that of the post World War I “Spanish Flu”.
In the time period following World War I a major flu epidemic occurred, resulting in a host of deaths unlike the world had seen since the time of the middle Ages and the “Black Plague”. After the First World War the Spanish Flu spread worldwide. Whole communities and even isolated communities were decimated. The transmission of this deadly flu has been thought to be that of the soldiers returning home from Europe after the war.
The initial identification of the influenza virus was in Spain. However the virus may have originated elsewhere and spread in a diffident manner initially. What is of concern is that with out rapid transportation system – especially jet aircraft travel , that in a short period of time the virus could be spread worldwide..
In one case in point the authorities World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported that two members of the same Chinese family had contracted the H5NU Bird Flu, It has not been determined whether had contracted the illness through person to person spread from the family member, or whether the patient had contracted the illness from the original infected bird, poultry or avian source. Indeed it will take genetic testing to determine whether indeed the H5NU virus in this case is even of the same strain or origin. It is not out of the possibility that these are two entirely different influenza strains.
The Chinese National Disease Authority ha confirmed that a 52 year old man from the eastern capital city of Nanjing had the H5NU Bird Flu virus diagnosed after his 24 year son had died of the disease. What makes the case even the more interesting and intriguing is that there no reported cases of the H5NU virus in the immediate or surrounding areas? It is possible that there may have been small unnoticed or unreported occurrences of this flu in the surrounding area; however this does not seem to be the case.
There have been continual and ongoing reports in Asia or sporadic and very limited human to human transmission of the H5NU flu stain in Indonesia and Hong Kong. However generally these tended to be among family members who came into close contact. Most importantly the H5NU Bird Flu outbreaks in these family groupings were sustained, mutated or ongoing.
Further medical and epidemiological research has to be done in this area.
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